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Hello all,


All I am after are 3 X 27 '' monitors or my gaming.

This is my current setup (the important bits)


Case : Thermaltake Level 10 (I love BMW's and when I heard about this case I "had" to have it.)
PSU : Corsair AX1200
Cooling : Swiftec H20
CPU : Intel i7 970 which is overclocked to 4GHZ ( I purchased this because the game I play/test utilises 6 Cores and runs approximately 20-25% faster than on a 2600K. Couldnt afford any better CPU at the time.)
Ram : 32 GiG G-Skill Rip Jaws (I do a lot of video editing + I do database testing and those use bucket loads of RAM)
Motherboard : Gigabyte G1- Guerrilla
Primary Drive : Intel SSD 250 GIG Sata III
Video Cards : 2 X Palit GTX 580 3GIG (SLI)
OS : Windows 7 Professional


The monitors must be 120hz minimum for 2D and the monitors do not have to be 3D but it would be a bonus. If I can get a cheaper monitor that is not 3D, but 120 hz in 2D with a thin bezel I would be happy.

Bezel size is important, I do not like huge borders and debezeling IS NOT an option.

So 120 hz + bezel size is how I am deciding.

I did go to a friends place who had 3 X 24'' (he had Samsung MD230X monitor) and I did not like it because the horizontla view was too narrow and sometimes his games looked like they had some motion blur. (which I currently get from my 42'' 60 Hz Samsung)The bezel size was great on this monitor however and he had a ready made stand for it!

A work collegue showed me his 27'' setup (Samsung S27A950) and I really liked it but he has Radeon 6990 and 3D works for him but he said it won't work with Nvidia Cards. Bezel was also great!


As I have Nvidia cards, I need a monitor compatible with that.


My budget is about $500 per monitor.

Your help would be appreciated.

If no one on this site can help me then I guess I am out of luck!!

No one knows?

I have come to a specialist site and I was hoping for some help.


Once again, thanks in advance.

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Kind of an old thread, let me know if you still care.. but your $500 for a 27" monitor is not realistic. Even 23" 120Hz monitors cost around $500. A 27" costs closer to 650-700.

3x3D monitors is kind of crazy, you will need the top of the line video cards and you still won't get good FPS except on older games. Proper 3D basically renders each scene three times, so imagine every game becoming 3x slower.

If you are doing 3x2D gaming then you just have plain TN monitors with inferior quality to *VA or IPS you could get for that price. Motion blur is caused probably by your friend's monitor having poor gray-to-gray response times.

I disagree with above. I could not recommend 120Hz monitors highly enough for 2D gaming. The difference is night and day.
Just pick up the 24" Acers from my sig (the thingie on the side where you have to click "show" next to the system specs)
I got them the day they came out for $350 (using the now - defunct Bing Cash Back) I would imagine maybe now the price have come even more down after couple of years?
They also have 2ms gaming grade response ratio, and you can run new releases of games at around 100 fps.

120Hz monitor is definitely the best investment you can make for gaming, because even if you get super duper GPU which can render the game at 200 fps, but guess what? On a 60Hz screen you can only see 60 so you just wasted your $$. nVidia only increases fps by about 10 with each of their new GPU's, so if you can increase your fps by 40 - 60 by switching to 120Hz monitor, that's 400% increase compared to GPU!

I am sure 120FPS @ 120Hz provides a much better experience, but where are you going to get the hardware to run the latest games maxed out at 120FPS at triple wide resolutions? What are you going to do, run triple 6990s? That being said if you enjoy the older games (I still play TF2 from time to time) the benefit could be most nice. Just trying to be realistic here.

Also, I use my computer a lot for other things besides playing games, TN quality is just crap outside of games.

120Hz refresh rate Not only improves response ,it also can create good 3D effects.
So that players can get better gaming ,also can be very stunning 3D effect.
I'm sure "ASUS VG236H 23-Inch 120 Hz 3D Ready Panel Monitor with nVidia 3D Vision Kit"
is the best gaming monitor for you.